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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (187814)	12/4/2009 9:17:06 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 225578

The house has a fascinating history behind it. Now I wonder if anyone has written an Autobiography of Mary Ann Custis? Before the Civil War, Lee and his wife had lived at his wife's family home, the Custis-Lee Mansion on Arlington Plantation. The plantation had been seized by Union forces during the war, and became part of Arlington National Cemetery; immediately following the war, Lee spent two months in a rented house in Richmond, and then escaped the unwelcome city life by moving into the overseer's house of a friend's plantation near Cartersville, Virginia.[37] (In December 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, returned the property to Custis Lee, stating that it had been confiscated without due process of law.[38][39] On March 3, 1883, the Congress purchased the property from Lee for $150,000.[40]) en.wikipedia.org